Minutes of key meetings held in September 2021 in which Chris Whitty and the UK CMOs overruled the Government's vaccine advisers to push through Covid vaccination of children have been released – and they're damning.
While it's welcome that the JCVI has finally ended boosters for under-50s, the data the decision is based on are still skewed towards the vaccines. And why did it take three months to let us know?
The U.K. is set to become the latest country to ban boosters for healthy under-50s, as the Government moves away from the "pandemic emergency". The trend has been linked by observers to concerns about vaccine safety.
Contrary to how it has been used in the Covid pandemic, the 'precautionary principle' has never encouraged the introduction of innovations, programmes or interventions on the basis that they just might do some good.
Parents will be able to sign up for jabs for their five to 11 year-olds within weeks amid a rise in Covid infections. But do the risks outweigh the benefits?
A fourth vaccine dose should be offered to all adults over-75 and the most vulnerable over-12s this spring, vaccine advisory body and rolled out more widely in the autumn, the JCVI says.
The JCVI has advised that 5-11 year-olds should be vaccinated, even though it admits 85% have had the virus, the vaccines don't prevent infection, and there are known and unknown harms. It is a decision it will regret.
The risks of vaccinating children against Covid now clearly outweigh the benefits, the Government has been told by a group of MPs and scientists in an open letter setting out the latest evidence.
The JCVI has recommended that the six month wait between receiving the second dose and the booster jab should be cut in half.
KIDS as young as five are set to be offered Covid jabs within months under secret NHS plans in spite of Covid posing close to zero risk to children.
